Levees.org featured on CNN

Today CNN ran a story about Levees.org's 18-month quest to list two major levee breach sites to the National Register of Historic Places.

The story was featured all day today on National and International News.

We believe CNN's Joe Sutton did a good job.

But, we note with interest that many readers left comments complaining of the taxpayer expense to recognize the worst civil engineering disaster in U.S. history.

In fact, Levees.org has absorbed the great lion's share of the expense in preparing the 39-page documentation.

A small share of taxpayer funding would include a Louisiana expert panel which voted against Levees.org's nomination in November 2011. Some of the members were "uncomfortable" with the nomination because it faulted the Army Corps of Engineers for the levee failures.

UPDATE: Yesterday, January 30th, the Corps of Engineers’ Federal Preservation Officer finally confirmed receipt of Levees.org's NRHP nomination at the Pentagon, which FEDEX records show was received on December 30th, a month ago.

The FPO confirmed receipt at 10:07 a.m. January 13, 2012. Under regulation 36 CFR 60, the FPO has sixty days to respond, or not.